Bottle



(no Model.)

J. G. OLEMMBR. BOTTLE;

1104554555". Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

WITNESSES:

ANDREW EGRAHAM. FHOTO'UTNO WASHINGTON. D C

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL GERHAR D OLEMMER, OF NATRQNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BQTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 554,655, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed May 27,1895. Serial No. 550,765. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOEL GERHARD CLEM- MER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Natrona, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles or other like receptacles, and has for its object to produce an article of this character which may be hermetically sealed in such a manner as to require a consumer to destroy a portion thereof before removing the contents. This will prevent unscrupulous persons from refilling the vessel and again using it in its original shape. I attain this object by the use of the novel construction hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of a bottle havingits top portion broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line x 00 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a vertical elevation of a jar with its top portion broken away.

In the practice of my invention, a bottle or jug A is formed with a short neck a adapted to receive a cork b when the bottle or like receptacle is filled. Having filled and corked the vessel in the usual manner, a cap Bis placed over the neck thereof. This said cap is supplied in its upper portion with an opening 0. After the cap B has been placed over the neck of the bottle a quantity of fiuid cement O is poured into the same through an opening 0 until the Whole interior portion of the capB is filled therewith. This said cement will harden fand adhere to the inner walls of the cap B, to the upper portion of the neck a of the bottle A, and to the cork 5, whereby an effectual sealing of the bottle will be produced. The cap B, it will be noticed by refence to the drawings,is composed of thin glass, which can be readily broken without injuring the neck of the bottle to which it is attached. Therefore, when it is desired to remove the contents of the bottle or other vessel to which it is attached, the cap B and cement 0 must be broken away before the cork b can be removed.

The cement used in sealing the cap B to the neck a of the bottle A must be of such a nature as to adhere very tightly, not only to the inner walls of the cap 13 but also to that portion of the bottle A which comes in contact with it. By the use of such cement it will be seen that the cap B could not be removed from the bottle without first breaking the said cap. Owing to the thinness of the material forming the cap B it can be readily broken away from the bottle A Without injury to the latter, as the bottle A is made of much stronger and heavier material than the cap B; but the cap being once destroyed spoils the original shape and appearance of the bottle and prevents its reuse by any one except the original bottler, who is supplied with the said caps, which can bear his trademark.

In the practice of my invention, as above described, the cap B is secured to the bottle by means of a cement filling only, but it will be obvious that the cap may be welded to the bottle in the process of manufacture. The bottle can then be filled through the opening 0, which is made large enough to admit the stem of a funnel as well as the cork b. After filling and corking the bottle, the filling of cement 0 maybe poured therein, as described above.

I do not confine myself to the exact shape of the parts as shown in the drawings, and it will be obvious that under the scope of my invention I can change the contour of the cap Bfor I may apply it to other vessels than the one described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a bottle having in lieu of an elongated neck, a short. annular flange surrounding its inlet, which is adapted to receive a cork, and a thin glass cap open at each end, one end of which surrounds the annular flange of the bottle, the said cap being secured to the bottle by a filling of cement which must adhere to the inner surface of the cap, to the flange of the bottle and to the cork; substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 24th day of May,

JOEL GERHARD OLEMMER. WVitnesses:

E. E. ARMSTRONG, N. J. REITER. 

